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Nov. 13th, 2005 01:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progDashed-off hypothesis based on my previous poll: Dots and Boxes (under any name) never gained much traction as a traditional children's passtime in the northeast. I believe (based on what I know of y'all) that most respondents who said that they had played it grew up in other parts of the country, and most of those who had never heard of it before (Y.T. inlcuded) grew up around New England.
This is not why I asked about it; it's just an unexpected and somewhat interesting observation based on the response. I asked because I just wanted to gauge how obscure the game was. Obscurity (from the mainstream's perspective) is a prerequisite for a game's being featured on The Gameshelf, and the possibility of an interesting special-guest opportunity made me wonder about the suitability of this game. I suppose I could always bend the rules a bit, especially for a game that appears to be at least regionally unknown.
For all my activity, I have been rather bummed lately. Not depressed, or even sad; more like the height of my baseline mood has dropped a few notches very recently. For all the blogging I do, you think I'd have gotten around to the personal introspection necessary to attend to this, but no. I think I've gotten too needy about having an audience for everything I write. Peh...
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xach spawned, hurrah. As always I applaud the efforts of my smart friends to reproduce. Even though I generally find babies to be the igriest creatures on earth, I can't help but feel a twinge of existential nervousness at the child-free paths that I and lots of my nerdzoid friends walk (including the paired-off ones). Seeing counterexamples is a relief. I am not kidding.
This is not why I asked about it; it's just an unexpected and somewhat interesting observation based on the response. I asked because I just wanted to gauge how obscure the game was. Obscurity (from the mainstream's perspective) is a prerequisite for a game's being featured on The Gameshelf, and the possibility of an interesting special-guest opportunity made me wonder about the suitability of this game. I suppose I could always bend the rules a bit, especially for a game that appears to be at least regionally unknown.
For all my activity, I have been rather bummed lately. Not depressed, or even sad; more like the height of my baseline mood has dropped a few notches very recently. For all the blogging I do, you think I'd have gotten around to the personal introspection necessary to attend to this, but no. I think I've gotten too needy about having an audience for everything I write. Peh...
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xach spawned, hurrah. As always I applaud the efforts of my smart friends to reproduce. Even though I generally find babies to be the igriest creatures on earth, I can't help but feel a twinge of existential nervousness at the child-free paths that I and lots of my nerdzoid friends walk (including the paired-off ones). Seeing counterexamples is a relief. I am not kidding.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
yeah spawn!
Date: 2005-11-13 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-13 11:37 pm (UTC)After many years of writing I have come to understand that insofar as it is used as a means of introspection, it functions as a means of avoiding introspection. If you want to use writing as a tool of introspection you should:
a) write fiction in which you let your imagination run completely wild
b) read it a year or two later, and ask yourself, "What kind of weirdo wrote this?"